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We Want the Full Loaf (not just a child support grant)

Presentation at the Development Action Group Workshop
Cape Town, 18 November 2009

by Mnikelo Ndabankulu

We Want the Full Loaf (not just a child support grant)

The Slums Act

The Slums Act first came to our ears as a Bill in 2006. The information about this Bill came to us indirectly through our sources.

It was clear that we needed to discuss this Bill as Abahlali. M’du Hlongwa and I both went to the Government Communications to ask a copy. We had two copies and we shared these copies and we analysed the Bill. We had a number of meetings where we read the Bill together going one line by one line.

M&G: Mzansi Voters: Mnikelo Ndabankulu

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Mzansi Voters: Mnikelo Ndabankulu
NIREN TOLSI | DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Apr 16 2009 14:42

The one thing shack dwellers like Mnikelo Ndabankulu are guaranteed of after every election, is more building material for their mjondolos.

Once the ballots have been cast, election posters make their way into informal settlements like Foreman Road, a sprawl of rusted metal, wood and cardboard shacks arranged on a precipitous slope overlooking the middle-class suburb of Clare Estate in Durban.

Sunday Tribune: No parties in these marquees

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http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4931848

No parties in these marquees

April 12, 2009 Edition 1

Noelene Barbeau

It is 4pm and the tent community in Joyce Road, Sea Cow Lake, is beginning to stir. Naked little boys are playing in the dirty sand while their mothers prepare supper on paraffin stoves in their cramped marquee.

The gas stove smell fills the air of the tiny living area. There are three marquees in total: two for the women and children and one for the men. The tents face the road, while across the open space, on council land in Joyce Road, some have built informal houses.

City Press: ‘No human should live like this’

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City Press
13/09/2008 16:09 – (SA)
‘No human should live like this’

Tired of empty promises and crumbling shacks, residents take to the streets in protest yet again. VIVIAN MOOKI visits Orange Farm and gets stuck in a muddy puddle among the dusty streets.

DEBRIS, rocks and electricity pylons blockade the dusty streets of Drieziek in Orange Farm amid a heavy dark cloud of smoke from burning tyres.

Mngxitama: ‘We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs’ (Essay on the pogroms)

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We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

by Andile Mngxitama

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks. I dreaded opening a newspaper for days – afraid of being confronted by yet another grisly product of the negrophobic xenophobic violence, which by the end of week three had claimed the lives of about one hundred people and displaced about 100 000, according to some estimates. The mind spins out of the axis of the normal.